"Forever"

Even if you've never heard Love of Diagrams before, anyone remotely familiar with Amerindie rock from the 1990s knows what they sound like. Being Australian, the group's particular strain of shoegazey grit might remind learned folks of Bailter Space, a New Zealand outfit that, like Love of Diagrams, once suckered Matador Records into putting out a few of their broken pop records. Some might instead focus on the girl/boy vocal relays and think on the days before the Delgados booked time with Dave Fridmann and found out what a string section is for. And if the music wasn't familiar enough, the tune's production (courtesy of Bear Creek Studio's Ryan Hadlock) is so gauzy and cruddy that it might trigger long-forgotten memories of flipping through an endless array of wasteful longbox packages and awkward plastic security sleeves as you search on-campus stores fruitlessly for that Amphetamine Reptile record that got five fingers in last month's Alternative Press. Or maybe that's just me. At any rate, if you feel the need to scratch that post-Sister pre-Oasis itch, either because you grok those sorts of sounds or you're nostalgic for the days when you did, "Forever" is the perfect salve.